Wagon-box



(No Model.)

P.v sAMEs. WAGON BOX.

Patented Mayas), 1583.

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t ent screw-'bolts b. The upper removable sec- 40 l embrace the side-boardsyof the main box.

UNITED `STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' PETER SAMES, OF ROGKFORD, ILLINOIS.

f `:WAGON-BX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,365, dated May 29, 18.83.. u i v Application filed June 29, 188%. (No model.) l

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, PETER SAMEs, a citizen L of the United States,lresiding in the city of Rockford, in the `county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented a new and use-` ful Improvement in Wagon-Boxes, of which the following is avspecitlcation. i

' This invention `relates to wagon-boxes employed in connection ,mainly,with farm or truck Wagons, but more particularly to such wagonboxes employing au upper removable section.

The object of this invention is to lock the upper or removable section, and to prevent spreading of the central portionof the box. To this end I have designed and constructed and applied the devices represented in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is an isometrical representation ot' a wagon-box embodying, my invention. Fig. 2 is a central transverse vertical section cut on dotted line w. Fig. 3 is'an isometrical representation of the hinged portion of the locking-hasp, and Fig. 4 is an isometrical representation of the staple portiony which receives the hinged portion of the hasp. t

In the figures, A represents the sides, B the ends, and O the bottom, of an ordinary wagonbox constructed in the usual manner, having the parts fixed to eachother by means of the usual appliances of screw-bolt rods a and pendtion of the wagon-box :is of a form and size to correspond with the main portion of the wagonbox, consisting,in the main,of the sides D and the ends E, constructed in the usual manner,

`and joined by means of the screw-bolt rods c,

passed through the ends of its sides. 4This section is also provided with battens cl, lixed to the opposite sides of its side-boards at proper intervals, having depending ends to At F is represented a staple-plate of suit- One of the stapleplates is embedded in the upperedge portion the inside thereof, at or near the center ot' their length, in such a manner that its outer face will be substantially flush with the face 5o of the side. These staple-plates, in this-inhasp is provided with a staple, 7c, in form substantially the same as the staple e of the staple-plate F. The free end portion of the plate of the hasp is provided with a transverse slot, l, of suitable dimensions to receive the staple e of the plate F. One of these hasps is employed in connection with each staple-plate F, and their stapler-plates h are placed on the inside lower edge portion of the upper removable portion ot' the Wagon-box in such relation to the staple-plate F, xed to the main portion, that the slot Z will receive the staple e of t y the plate F. In this position these two-part hasps are secured to the box by means of sut'- cient rivets passed through the parts and properly riveted, or they may be tixed thereto in any other proper manner. I

At I is represented a transverse body-brace consistingof the bar I, having fixed to its end portions pendent arms a, fitted to enter the staples k and e in the plates F and ,h of thei hasp snugly, but in such a manner as to be 'readily removed and replaced, when desired.

From the foregoing it will be seen that when the slotted free end of the hasp engages the staple e in the plate F, and the pendent ends of the transverse body-brace are inserted in the staples of the hasps, thetwoparts of the box will be'securely locked in place, and the body-brace will support the center portion of the boxes and hold them in theirproper position relatively with each other, andin such a manner that the boxes may be readily separated and united, when desired.

I claim as my invention- The combination, with a hasp' connecting the two portions of a two-part wagon-box, ot' a body-brace adapted to engage the hasps, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.`

`PETER SAMES.

'Witnessem J No; D. WATERMAN, A. O. BEHEL.` 

